Musicological banter

[hutch]

Ive always felt that the excessive compression on Signals - which renders it unlistenable - is one of the worst tragedies of the era.

I mean, besides the, y’know, actual problems.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s a great album that’s painful to listen to. I sometimes still do though.

Wow. I do not agree assuming you are talking about Rush…was just playing in car last week..just a regular American version with the atom design on cd

I mean maybe I don’t know what excessive compression sounds like

It’s not brickwalled or ear fatiguing

[sweetcell]

yeah, i was confused too... i had to google "Signals" to see if any other bands released a similarly titled album, didn't find anything.

HOWEVER, per the googles, apparently Signals does get knocked for being much more compressed/bricked than anything they had put out before that.  wasn't something i ever noticed...  the shift to more keyboards probably also contributes to the wall-of-sound effect.

[hutch]

Never noticed then again my first copy was a super shitty Argentine cassette.

But I have listened to lp and cd and never noticed

What I do knock is that the album feels a bit slight to me…. I like it a lot but it’s no moving pictures or grace or power windows

Obviously subdivisions is amazing….the reggae tune..pfft

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the reggae tune..pfft

It can’t possibly be worse than a roll the bones

[hutch]

Nobody mentioned this??

https://www.stereogum.com/2308289/pavement-play-colbert-ten-years-after-false-alarm-announce-movie-soundtrack/news/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKUp-VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvvuG0jG7L9nuozPqMX4sKCozGM3FPhyNVUzI67gJONVZZhVjaEGFFX092N5_aem_8C7hg5hAzDCUqFIKV1924Q